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Quotes About Anguish

deep down there is a thing inside me, and sometimes it swells up like the head of a squid and shoots blackness through me.
~ Elizabeth Strout
It hurt my heart with a heaviness as though a damp and dirty dishcloth lay across it.
~ Elizabeth Strout
bodies becoming like prisons with the person stuck inside. Screaming, or not screaming, but staring at you like you should do something.
~ Elizabeth Strout
I could tell you certain things which would convince you, but you would never know a happy day again. You would pass the rest of your life, as I pass mine, a haunted man, a man who has seen hell.
~ Arthur Machen
Unhappiness was my god.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Mais, vrai, j'ai trop pleuré ! Les Aubes sont navrantes. Toute lune est atroce et tout soliel amer: L'âcre amour m'a gonflé de torpeurs enivrantes. Ô que ma quille éclate ! Ô que j'aille à la mer!
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
~ Arthur Rimbaud
A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?
~ Arthur Rimbaud
I have withered within me all human hope. With every silent leap of a sullen beast, I have downed and strangled every joy. I have called for executioners; I want to perish chewing on their gun butts. I have called for plagues, to suffocate in sand and blood. Unhappiness has been my god. I have lain down in the mud, and dried myself off in the crime-infested air. I have played the fool to the point of madness.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Engoli uma notável poção de veneno - Três vezes seja bendita esta riquíssima ideia! - As entranhas ardem-me. A violência da peçonha galvaniza-me os membros, desfigura-me, atira-me por terra. Morro de sede, sufoco, não posso gritar. É o inferno, a pena capital. Vede como as chamas cobrem tudo! Ardo bastante bem.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Sometimes life is truly woeful.
~ Arto Paasilinna
Por eso estaba callado y quieto, que era una forma tan buena como otra cualquiera de estar desesperado.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
El sufrimiento era atroz con sólo imaginar dispersa mi biblioteca.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Ripped his heart out right before his eyes, eyes over easy
~ Avenged Sevenfold
To me, death is dark, pain, grief.
~ Mary Roach
If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off.
~ Lorna Luft
The memory was like a knife cutting into him. Slicing deep into him with hate.
~ Gary Paulsen
How could he? The
~ Gary Paulsen
An anguishing book offers anguished people a homeopathy of anguish.
~ Gaston Bachelard
Oh, cruel abandonment! My bones turn to dust beneath the gaze of your ever-mocking smile!
~ Gene Luen Yang
Though cast away am I from the heart of my city, black tears dribble from mine eyes at the sight of the fearful trail blazing towards her gates!
~ Gene Luen Yang
That is probably the most painful part: when you are still tormented by the thought that one last effort of will might improve things.
~ Geoff Dyer
Alas the day that gave me birth! Worse than my prison is the endless earth, now I am doomed eternally to dwell, not in purgatory, but in hell
~ Geoffrey Chaucer